Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-12
HOME AND ABROAD.
TERRIBLE AND DESTRUCTIVE
FLOODS IN MICHIGAN.
Disastrous Wind-storm-The Eastern
Strikes-Fast Train for Califor-
nia-Testimonial to McGlynn.
lsrzcIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD us1oS.J
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
Towns in the West Under Water, and Il
People Panic-Strickeu.


People Panic-Stricken.
Lyons (Mich.), February 1lth.-The
food here is simply terrible panic has
seized some of the people, and it is impos.
sible to get estimate of losses. The water in
some places is four feet deep in many resi-
denceS, and the same state of affairs pre-
walls in the storerooms. Everybody is NOV
ing or preparing to move. Last night was
the most exciting the village has ever ex-
perienced. Up to last night three build
ings had been washed away and demol-
ished and many others were badly dam
aged
At Muir the same serious conditions pre-
vail, and merchants have abandoned their
stores. Advices from other points are to
the same effect, but Lyons seems to be The
worst. Three Rivers is surrounded with
water. All the shops have been closed at
this point. Immense lumber piles are
afioat. The Lake Shore Railway track is
in great danger of being washed away At
Owosso seven inches of snow fell last night
and the river is still rising At Monroe the
river has been slowly rising for the last
twenty-four hours, but the ice has broken,
giving free passage to the lake. The banks
of the river are lined with immense walls
of ice, rising eight or ten feet above the
present high-water mark, and great fields
streets adjacent to the river. At Jackson
the pressure of water in Grand river and
in the mill pond above the city was too
great, and last night all the sluices were
opened, with the result that the water rose
several feet, and the Grand Trunk bridge is
now under water. The cellars in the busi-
ness blocks in the center of the town are all
flooded from eighteen to thirty inches. The
State Fair grounds are completely SUBJ
merged, and on large tract of land in the
southern part of the city the water is up to
the floors of the dwellings. The prison
walls stand in the midst of the lake.
THE SITUATION AT JACKSON, MICH.
JACKSON (Mich.), February 11th. A
slight abatement of the flood was noticed
last night, but it is raging in great fury
this morning. Rain fell in torrents until
about midnight, when it changed to snow,
and by daylight fully eight inches of snow
and seet had fallen. There is regular
northwester, with high wind. The water
has risen two feet in the last four hours,
and is still rising, the people working night
and day to save their property. Maple
and Grand rivers unite here, and both are
raging. 1t is impossible to give complete
estimate of the danger done. Should the
Lansing ice reach here before the gorge
gives way, all the business places on the
north side OF Main street Will be washed
away. A rough estimate of the damages
make an aggregate between $4,000 and
100000.
PEOPLE ABANDONING THEIR HOMES.
Fort WAYNE Qnd.), February 11th.-
The Maumee and st. Marys rivers raised
five feet last night, and the flood now
threatens to surpass the one four years ago.
Many persons have removed to the upper
cfn of oh ad
them altogether. There is great distress
among the families in the flooded portions
between Toledo and Fort Wayne. The
water is rising six inches per hour, and the
city must shortly be cut off from all COM
munication from the north.